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I need a ruling on GC19H5H... The cache owner has it annotated as being in 682, but by the map it appears to be in 652.

Over here in Kitsap County I've been working the Historic Cemetery series and have been enjoying it so far.

I was going to ask just that....

You don't see how having experience with something is helpful in doing that something? Nobody is debating your capability to understand what makes up a good cache - what is questioned is whether you have the experience to understand what makes up a good cache and the problems inherent in maintaining a cache. These are two totally different issues.

Ouch. This does not sound like a good idea - this will be a very high maintenance cache as specialized items in the cache have a fairly good chance of taking a walk (accidentally left in player) requiring regular replacement. Not to mention the near certainty of damage to the DVD from dirt/dust/handling etc... On the whole, I don't think I'd do this cache. Portable DVD players are getting cheap - but not cheap enough to risk losing/damaging in the woods and decidedly not cheap enough to risk damaging because one of the 'several' DVD's are damp and/or dirty. Equally, I don't find reassurances that this will be a cache for the ages from someone with so few finds, no hides at all, and such a large chip to be very reassuring.

It's not like this is the first time $BIG_COMPANY has used someone else's artwork sans permission. There's been several such cases recently.

Everything is easy to someone who doesn't have to do it or maintain it.

Are they each different enough (from the others) to rate being showcased? What's the value in seeing more than one abandoned factory?

Around here we have the kids toss little wooden 'GPSrs' for accuracy. Yep, the good ol' GPS (in)accuracy challenge. Round these parts we provide folks with a set of coordinates and they plant their flags where they think those coordinates are. We then compare the flags to precisely located pin. This game is usually a source of vast amusement for the watchers.

The two are not mutually incompatible. At the just completed Spring Fling I was 'on staff' for the GPS Accuracy Game, which gave me a chance to chat with folks as they came to take part. At past events, I've noted that folks playing the game tend to socialize with each other as they place their flags. Ditto at the Frog Fling Game, folks socialize while watching or waiting their turn... As well as cheering (or jeering) the person currently Flinging.

Define Southsound. Seriously - those of us here on the Peninsula get lumped in both South, and West, depending on who is doing the lumping. I'd love to meet up now and again in a slightly less party atmosphere to chat on caching - at the Fling I had a very nice discussion with GreenXandHam about how to read cache pages and logs and try to discern whether the cache was worth doing.

I'm so glad someone else called IT!

I've been pretty lucky I guess, I've found some good caches everywhere I've traveled. (Not that I've traveled to all that many places.) But I do screen pretty carefully before traveling. (Checking the logs, etc...)

Remember, this isn't the first cache like this: It also doesn't have to be the last... I just don't want to put one so close. Joe; I'd have to work it out, hmm... Pluto is 120 light minutes from the sun, and the nearest star is 4.2 light years away (2,207,520 light minutes), so the scale distance to the nearest star = the distance from the model sun to the model Pluto x 18396... But he doesn't give us a scale distance from the model Sun to the model Pluto. So we work it another way - 267,068 AU to the nearest star, and 1.3 miles to the AU in the scale model yields a distance of 347,188 miles between the model Sun and a hypothetical model of the nearest star. Well past the (real) Moon.

Ah, dangit - somebody beat me to it. I've been doodling on making just such a series running the length of the Kitsap Peninsula. It was supposed to be this summers Big Project.

When Groundspeak introduces a lame/not lame attribute - then that filter will work. Until then, you need to get more than few caches under your belt before the filter between your ears is calibrated.

I really need to keep my logs up... While catching up on back logging I discovered that... Last March I hit the big five-oh at Sailors View in Jacksonville, Fl. (My log entry is here.)

GCVV4W Port Gamble Lego Cache

<sigh> What a choice I have, free tickets to the M's that day - on the club level, with my lady wife and two of our best friends... Or getting up early to traipse through a swamp in search of a geocache?

My wife and I routinely combine trips to SCA events with geocaching trips.

The 1990 Terraserver imagery shows the stable to be to the East, and the freeway present.

Indeed, as I have pointed out before - if geocachers were so careful about not doing any damage... why do we have the word 'geotrail' in our lexicon? The third post by the security gaurd is really disheartening.

Google Earth coordinates 47.46535 -122.240217 brings up two Community links that confirm this is the former site of Longacres... The Parks and Recreation overlay also confirms this. (Even though the track was demolished long before GE was written...) Google Maps also has Longacres present. So, whether or not they are related to Longacres - they decidely are adjacent to it.

Yes, it's sometimes true that all mistakes were needed to lead to a given outcome - but not always. There is often one root decision from which subsequent problems stem. He (James Kim) traveled (IIRC) 16 total miles (including the torturous off road portion) - but was only 14 miles from town. (The figures are not exact, but the proportions are roughly correct.) The author of the article believes that had he concentrated on staying on the road (to combat those bad impulses), he would have survived.

It would have been much better had they not chosen (for whatever godforsaken reason) to use heavy metal. Anyhow, their holiday commercials are much better - and funnier than their superbowl one.